Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-02-19
SLAM AT THE WIOOWERS
By an Eligible Young Bachelor W no is In
CliRed TO DO Hrs Duty.


By an Eligible Young Bachelor W no is In
cliIed TO Do HIS Duty.
To the Editor of the Republic:
/ have been thinking day and night about
your article in the issue of the 5th inst,
about ~ ioung Men and Matrmony." and
have at last concluded to write you some
views concerning the subject in hand as il
appears from young mans standpoint.
You say you just wanted to call our at
tentiOn TO the improperly of holding back
from matrimony when there are so many
charming young ladies to choose FROM ~
and thus encourage us to brace up and
try This Is all well and good. and none
of us feel hurt over it, or have decided to
ostracise your paper on that account. but
before this gratuitOus advice is acted upon
one great question looms before the
minds of the thousand tl.00O) young
men you say ought to marry in the next six
weeks, and that is. What shall be done
with the widowers" No young fellow is
going to brace up" to the point of getting
all torn mp" over love affair with a fair
one with golden locks. call on her eight
nights in week, take her to the opera in
a hack. send her rosebuds in January, all
on a salary of 5000. with hope of winning
her over to consent to ''lOve in a cottage ="
only TO find ont some fine day that
wdower whose wife, perhaps. hasn't been
dead the regulation year, has quietly
slyly-stepped in and by cunnlngly devised
speeches already won the prize. The mat
ter is settled and the day is set.
Now, Mr.. Editor. our grievances
are mapy, for this thing has
not happened To us once
or twice. but many times. aS the corfes-
sional of the midnight hour of ''chum to
chum' has revealed. and we appeal to you
for adjustment of sUch a state of affairs,
before much can be done in the way of any
great sale OF marriage licenses. BY the
way, won't il be bonanZI for the probate
Judge and the ministers" Ii we did not
know you to be man above suspicion. and
who would scorn the allurements of
''boodle," We might think you We're in
league with the above named parties To
make spec" off of us unsuspecting NOR
talS. But to return to the widowers. Why
can't thesemen. it they must maryland
We suppose they must out of compliment 10
the dear departed i take to themselves
wives from 1.-The large number of ladies
more suited To their own age. and leave
what rightfully belongs to us, the younger
ones"
You will, perhaps. say, Enough for all,
and To spare" That may be, if the thing
is rightly managed. but il falls to YOU. as
the editor of great and mighty organ. To
see to it that these old fellows don't get all
the young girls, for if they do. then we
who are in but the first bloom of manhood,
must. of necessity be thrown upon the
mercieS Of those girls who have already
snubbed us as the kids that are too
young To waste any time upon" Not that
wish for moment to disparage the deai
"old girls everywhere around us. No;
forbid that should be so understood, fol-
from earliest recollection | have had
deep, silent admiration for
more than one of my lady acquaintances.
who can sing ''siiver threads among the
gold" but although | may be an ..adorer
ever so ardent. it must be from afar." "a
am fully aware that not one of them. for a
moment. would entertain the idea of tax
ing boy TO raise" unless chance to have
a widower for father: so you see we
youngsters are to be pitied. With the girls
who are young enough to be our wives,
married TO these old fellows with two or
three children, and with all the other bright,
attractive girls who might in other circum-
stances be induced to consider our proposals
of matimony. earning for themselves a good
and comfortable support by employment of
hand and brain. besides giving them
ample time for social duties. church work.
etc, and altogether. are So grandly in
dependent of us ''men folks, " what, in the
name of all that's lovely. can We do? As
the spicy communication from .'one of the
thousand girls" intimated in your last issue,
il we 90 TO proposing hastily ''some of us
will get left and that badly" This hint
coming from one of this number. must be
considered, as apparently she knows what
she Is talking about. so all young men and
bachelors must think twice before taking
the fatal step. But did you observe. not
one word of caution to the "widowers. -
There certainly is something behind all
this. These girls know full well. if they
do consent TO marry us poor chaps. who
have just barely enough cash gathered to-
gether to do light housekeeping with gas
oline attachment" that their independence
shall have departed with their income. and
that the man of the house is the. treasurer Of
the eXchequer." and many one will
have to eat humble pie" while asking for
u tliHt III thc way VI pm IIolltN- L TatltT
think this is one strong point in favor of
the widower, who. having been through it
once-if his first wife has been careful to
do her whole duty-is supposed to know
how to act in these trying circumstances,
and so passes over the cash without further
prelinnarieS. And having their tinware
and cooking stove already laid in. gives
them decided advantage. also. in
the eyes of practical young ladies
who have business tact enough to
believe in the old adage that "a pound
saved is pound gained" Notwithstanding
all these facts, We young men have no de-
sire of growing into chronic, selfish bach
elors." as you say We may do. and there
fore, that you may believe we are honest in
this assertion. if you will consent to keep
these widowers off long enough-by means
of clubs, rails, or even pOp-guns-fOr us to
have good, square chance, the more cour-
ageous ones will brace up" and 90 in on our
muscle. just &c see what success will attend
honest effort. We may not accomplish
much in six short weeks. having had such
a hackset. but as the poet truly sings that
In the springtime young mans fancy
Lightly turns to thoughts of love.
and that propitious time being not far
distant, if you will extend the time thirty
days your soul. we believe, will be made
glad over at least SIS of the number who
have been led to see the error of their
ways. choose the better part" and commit
KARL.
Springfield Cooking School.
N,unC UpusaE aap.r,. Yours. IT,. s.,